This author incorporated his experiences as a novice schoolteacher into his first novel, My Brother Jack. One novel by this author sees Jean Gaussin become the lover of Fanny Legrand, who had earlier served as the model for the sculptor Caoudal's figure of the title Greek female. This author of Sappho wrote a short story in which Monsieur Hamel writes "Vive la France" on the blackboard after learning that the language of instruction is to be changed to German, entitled "The Last Class," as well as a novel about the travails of Christian II and Frederique, the monarchs of Illyria. In another short story by this author, the title character suggests that the White Fathers begin manufacturing the titular substance as a way of making money, but finds himself unable to resist drinking it. That story, "The Elixir of Father Gauchet," is included in this author's collection Letters From My Windmill, but he is more famous for his trilogy about a gardener who goes to Algi
This author incorporated his experiences as a novice schoolteacher into his first novel, My Brother Jack. One novel by this author sees Jean Gaussin become the lover of Fanny Legrand, who had earlier served as the model for the sculptor Caoudal's figure of the title Greek female. This author of Sappho wrote a short story in which Monsieur Hamel writes "Vive la France" on the blackboard after learning that the language of instruction is to be changed to German, entitled "The Last Class," as well as a novel about the travails of Christian II and Frederique, the monarchs of Illyria. In another short story by this author, the title character suggests that the White Fathers begin manufacturing the titular substance as a way of making money, but finds himself unable to resist drinking it. That story, "The Elixir of Father Gauchet," is included in this author's collection Letters From My Windmill, but he is more famous for his trilogy about a gardener who goes to Algiers to bolster his reputation for lion hunting. The author of Froment the Younger and Risler the Elder, as well as Kings in Exile, for ten points, identify this 19th century French author best known for his novel Tartarin of Tarascon.
This author incorporated his experiences as a novice schoolteacher into his first novel, My Brother Jack.
{Alphonse Daudet}